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Lahti, Villähde (1950)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Seppo Suomensyrjä is a Formula 1 and motor sports enthusiast. He revisits his own 1950s childhood through real-size toy cars and biplane Sopwith Camel that he has built in his garden. His toys include a hybrid yellow dragon made from a real Harley, and a Sputnik moped that can be seen speeding against the night-sky. Also, Suomensyrjä designs new space-age models, Jaguars in particular; he finds the mythology connected to this black beast of the jungle especially fascinating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seppo Suomensyrjä has built a Wild West saloon in his own house; it is a warm collection of hilarious objects, a museum of memories. The artist’s surreal paintings provide the settings for the gunfights his “cowboy persona” Finn-Side Kid arranges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To counterbalance the charm of the motorised world, Suomensyrjä has sculpted concrete sprites, elves, Kalevala’s Väinämöinen and animals in his back garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Text Minna Haveri. Photos: Juho Haavisto. Translation: Kirsti Nurmela-Knox.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lahti, Villähde (1950) Seppo Suomensyrjä is a Formula 1 and motor sports enthusiast. He revisits his own 1950s childhood through real-size toy cars and biplane Sopwith Camel that he has built in his garden. His toys include a hybrid yellow dragon made from a real Harley, and a Sputnik moped that can be seen speeding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9114,"template":"","artist_habitation":[],"artist_technique":[],"artist_category":[],"class_list":["post-9877","artist","type-artist","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":9877,"fi":9113},"pll_sync_post":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/msl.fi\/itetaide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist\/9877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/msl.fi\/itetaide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/msl.fi\/itetaide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artist"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/msl.fi\/itetaide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist\/9877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13051,"href":"https:\/\/msl.fi\/itetaide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist\/9877\/revisions\/13051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msl.fi\/itetaide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/msl.fi\/itetaide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist_habitation","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msl.fi\/itetaide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist_habitation?post=9877"},{"taxonomy":"artist_technique","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msl.fi\/itetaide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist_technique?post=9877"},{"taxonomy":"artist_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msl.fi\/itetaide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist_category?post=9877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}